Aunty has leukaemia and currently having chemo'
Moving house to the other side of Northampton in a week
Haven't started packing.
Spent today driving about and organising many things
Sister in the middle of having loft converted and refusing to help.
All other relatives are genuinely and apologetically unavailable.
Got to spend 3 hours tomorrow taking a lad from a bail hostel for a walk - this cannot be cancelled
Got to erect a scaffolding tomorrow night - this cannot be cancelled.

Wife got a call this morning - she needs driving to a 2-hour interview in Milton Keynes at 12 noon tomorrow - this also cannot be cancelled.

GREAT!! ANYTHING ELSE?!?

Had a very hard week so far. Co-worker's been off sick, and he came back today.
Only to spend it all editing family photos and doing nothing else.

Why is it all the important/one day only event emails only arrive on that one day you don't check your email?

Does anyone know of there is a way to turn off autoplay on the BBC website?

When I go to a page such as science & environment I open all the articles I want to read in tabs, and then flick through the tabs. As it stands some of the content with video plays instantly and others I have to click on play. It's annoying, not least because of the lack of consistency.

I also read news from smh.com.au. They have a great system where you have a 5 second delay until the video starts, from when you first look at the tab, giving planty of time to stop it if you're not interested. It's not often that Australian tech gets the upperhand over the UK.

Install a Flash blocker?

That would work for the demand part of my rant, but I would still have to click more than I would like. Youtube has an autoplay setting, I don't see why the BBC can't do the same.

On the subject of youtube, I wish people wouldn't upload videos of themselves playing computer games. It makes it quite hard to find something factual, especially with things like planes, trains and automobiles.

Who in their right mind would give an exam that has a section that is of no use to anyone and unless you have already sat it you have no idea what it is like, who made a 60 question test prodominantly on the latest technology which most industry professionals don't even use because they think it's the next best thing?

Oh yeah... MS
(Quite narrowly failed my exam which I think was due to the case study which there are 0 examples for, or practice exercises to prepare for online and even the structure was hard to find)

They're all like that.

My last one was 5 independent case study s with random question lengths & time lengths

Not the MCTS ones, the last one I sat (the one the other dev did) doesn't have a case study, neither did the one before that I sat

I got stuck in the Asda car park for half an hour yesterday because people were blocking the exit waiting to get into the petrol station. Panic buying retards. Why? For a strike that not only hadn't been actually confirmed but one that we now know is definitely not happening next week. Why is the human race such a large collective of [LIFTED] morons!!

My last one was probably a PRO. I've had random case study questions in MCTS exams though (although sometimes they're not actually scored)

I keep thinking of Mad Max when I see the reports.

OH MY GOD, MY [LIFTED] DAD.

So my GPU fan died a while back and whilst i got a replacement fan, it didn't fit because the board wasn't a reference one.

My Dad being all high and mighty phones me up after i've gone back to Uni and goes "Of course the GPU fan fit, you just weren't installing it correctly, i've gone and done it for you blah blah blah".

I finally get home today and what has he done?

He's gone and installed it on the REPLACEMENT GPU that i had in my machine...

Now i have to [LIFTED] disassemble the fan off of this one and put back on the previous one.

Thanks a [LIFTED] lot -.-'.

My boss is off this week, so it's just me and my colleague in the office. OMG doesn't he go on, he hasn't stopped talking since he got in the office, either about some TV shows, or his girlfriends cooking, or reading out loud, or reading what he is writing, he frequently asks about spelling words such as "address", "street", "come", and asking me to check his emails before he sends them (which is probably as well to be fair, he was about to ask some NR guy to cum in our office).

He's an utter muppet. He's got a degree in electrical engineering and doesn't know how to use a soldering iron or measure voltage

I'm trying to get on with work and he's just in my ear all the [LIFTED] time

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I wonder where he found it